Release 4.0 Whats New?

SCOPE Metrics™ is delivered with SCOPE  Professional™ 4.0 and SCOPE Corporate™ 4.0. It can  also be purchased separately as a standalone metrics module and used to record  data for size, effort, defects, and environment attributes; for all your  applications and projects.  The data  fields are compliant with the Data Collection Standards  set by the International  Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) for Development and Enhancement  (D&E) and, Maintenance and Support (M&S) metrics. You can selectively  assign Projects and/or Applications to your customised Benchmarking periods for  comparative performance reporting and trends analysis.  The standalone module is ideal for  organisations that need to report productivity and quality metrics based on  functional size but do not need the full function point counting repository  capability of SCOPE.  At the press of a button you can email your selected D&E projects and  M&S applications data submission to ISBSGs for their repository.

SCOPE provides full online and print reporting of  productivity, quality and size metrics, both as tabular data and interactive  pivot charts.  Select to report by Work  Package (Count Session), Project, Release, Application and/or Period. Customise  the inbuilt reports or add your own to the report template and interactively  include and exclude displayed data from your graphs.

SCOPE CONNECT^™  subscribers can utilise the latest technologies and frameworks of  the semantic web to identify, integrate, query and visualise their metrics  data. SCOPE CONNECT^™  portal provides  drill down reporting and dynamic filtering of the ISBSG database to enable you to  'slice and dice' your own metrics data to benchmark against relevant Industry  projects and applications' maintenance and Support data.

SCOPE  4.0 has customisable 'numeric'  attributes that can be linked to the Process and Data tree. Either use the  inbuilt Numeric Attribute Templates provided, or create your own Numeric  Categories. For example you can create new or customise existing numerical  attributes by setting up:

• Different Project Delivery Rates (PDR- hours/fp)  for different functional areas and SCOPE will calculate the effort hours to  deliver the linked functionality
• Earned Value reporting by assigning  'percentage complete' to project  functionality and SCOPE will calculate the 'earned value' function points for  management reporting
• NESMA Enhancement Impact Factors and calculate the  NESMA function points or set up your own customised impact factors.

SCOPE  has modernised its user interface:

• Industry  Windows 7 standard icons replace control buttons for all basic functions.
• Additional shortcuts for Application List, Project List  and Benchmark Metrics screens
• All screens enable basic functions (e.g. Save,  Search, Move up /down, Copy/Paste)
• Benchmark Metrics Module enables multi-select of  Tree nodes for all operations
• Hierarchy screens have Zoom In/Out for customised  visibility
• Tutorial buttons on screens to view relevant tutorial

• Snapshot and Export whole Applications with their all Releases and Counts for import into to  a new or existing database
• Cut and paste nodes and change tree sequence  position of any node on the Applications List, Project List or Benchmark  Metrics trees using arrow icons to move nodes up or down
• Assign Enhancement Types from either LHS or RHS  tree
• Optimised speed for SCOPE functions. Complex  functions (import and convert database) now have a status bar to report  progress.
• Select to flag nodes on other tree that are 'not linked' to current selected branch